package dependencies cannot be resolved

[lesliek]

When I ran the software updater, I was told that package dependencies could not be resolved: "grub-efi-amd64-signed: Depends: grub2-common (>= 2.02+dfsg1-5) but 2.04-1ubuntu26.15 is to be installed".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: grub-efi-amd64-signed 1.167.2+2.04-1ubuntu44.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-131.147-generic 5.4.210
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-131-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.24
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Flashback:GNOME
Date: Thu Oct 27 08:00:13 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-07-28 (2281 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub2-signed
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2021-03-17 (588 days ago)

[William Wilson (jawn-smith)]

Hmm that version number is indeed newer than required...

jawn-smith@desktop:~$ dpkg --compare-versions "2.02+dfsg1-5" "lt" "2.04-1ubuntu26.15"
jawn-smith@desktop:~$ echo $?
0

Foundations team will discuss.

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

The packaging is correct, this is a bug in update-manager or apt, it might be the same as bug 1990684.